The Waipa Post. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Tuesday, February 3, 1914. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 286, 3 February 1914, Page 2

The Waipa Post. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Tuesday, February 3, 1914. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Applications are invited by they Te Awamutu Town Board for the position of dog registrar for the Te Awamutu Town District.

The Te Awamutu Town Board officially notifies having appointed Wednesday as the statutory closing day for the half-holiday at Te Awamutu lor the year 1914.

Probate in the following estates has been granted by Mr Justice Cooper : —Margaret C. Allan (Mr Cox), E. I. Miller (Mr Reid), and Frederick Sing (Mr Collins). Letters of administration were granted in the estate of Geo. Benson (Mr Collins).

Members of the Te Awamutu Swimming and Life-Saving Club are reminded'that a meeting of the club will take place to-morrow at the Cosmopolitan club room at 7.30 p.m. A special invitation to attend is extended to ali those interested in swimming.

The section at the corner of Alexandra and Market Streets, on which are situated the building's known as Bockett’s Buildings, together with the building at present occupied by the Town Board offices, has lately been purchased by the Union Bank of Australia.

The ladies of St. Johns’Church are requested by an advertisement in another column to meet at the vicarage on Friday afternoon next. The object of the meeting is to make preliminary arrangements in connection with a spring bulb show, and it is requested that as many ladies as possible will attend. We understand : IvU Mr Langmuir. p. oprisior of the Premier Pic-nr..c, T.sn isehrf hK >ll- - ir. «h. Mmrk; • die am! MaLunruvi circa:u :s .dr L&iiinr s nil {s ■ y 10n •■ *** yu.**u« > show two nights a week in Te Awamutu —Tuesday and Thursday—there being a change of programme for each night, as advertised. The first challenge match in connection with theNorden Stars was played at the local Bowling Club's green on Saturday afternoon, when Henderson (senr.) and Hendeison (jnr.) played the holders, Edgecumbe and A. Wood. The weather was not at all favourable, frequent showers falling during the progress of the game. The match ended in a win for the challengers by 27 to 10.

Mr Charles de Rothschild is said, on the authority of IVI. Perier, of the French Institute, to have paid £IOOO for a rare variety of flea that occasionally is found on the skin of the sea otter. The specimen will be added to Mr de Rothschild’s entomological collection. The same gentleman has had planted on his English estate manuka seed gathered in Te Awamutu.

Victor Hugo’s immortal masterpiece, “ Lcs Miserables,” is billed to be shown by the Premier Pictures at Kihikihi on Monday, February Qth. On the following evening the same lilm will be screened at the Town Hall, Te Awamutu. The story is an object lesson, setting forth the brutalising effect of cruel in justice, and the ennobling influence of kindness. The trying times of the French* Revolution are also depicted, and that terrible period is faithfully shown. The conductor (Mr W. f. Dil) informs us that the performers in the cantata “Britannia and Her Daughters,” have signified their willingness to give a further entertainment in aid of the technical school funds. If possible, arrangements will'be made for this performance to take place at Te Awamutu early m March, and possibly the company will visit Kihikihi and Pirongia at a later date to further augment the technical school funds

A young American lawyer was defending an old convjct on the charge of burglaiy in a State where the court rules allow each side one hour to address the jury. The young lawyer, somewhat nervous, consulted a veteran member of tlie Bar who happened to be standing near. “ How much time do you think 1 should take up in addressing the jury?” he asked in a rather pompous manner. “Take the full hour,” was the gruff reply: “ The longer von talk, the longer you will keep your client out of gaol.”

The New Zealand loan of £4,500,000 was subscribed fivefold. The subscribers number 25,800. We arc informed that arrangements are being made for the Te Awamutu Town Band to visit Pirongia and Kihikihi on Sunday afternoons in the near future. The Pand will play several selections in the park or at some other suitable place in each district, and au invitation will be extended to all residents to be present. If it is shown that the district residents appreciate the visits by the band to these localities the bandsmen will continue to arrange similar visits at regular intervals. It is also intended that the band will give a concert at the Tokanui mental hospital, and arrangements to this end are being made.